Definition of crack

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Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..

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Gimcrack :: Gimcrack (n.) A trivial mechanism; a device; a toy; a pretty thing.
Crack-brained :: Crack-brained (a.) Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy.
Fracture :: Fracture (v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull..
Scallop :: Scallop (n.) To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below..
Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..
Vesbium :: Vesbium (n.) A rare metallic element of which little is known. It is said by Scacchi to have been extracted from a yellowish incrustation from the cracks of a Vesuvian lava erupted in 1631.
Greaves :: Greaves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.
Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery..
Crackling :: Crackling (n.) The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated..
Craze :: Craze (v. i.) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery..
Check :: Check (v. i.) To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc..
Snap :: Snap (v. i.) To give forth, or produce, a sharp, cracking noise; to crack; as, blazing firewood snaps..
Areola :: Areola (n.) An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing..
Check :: Check (v. t.) To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber..
Cracked :: Cracked (imp. & p. p.) of Crac.
Decrepitate :: Decrepitate (v. t.) To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Crepitate :: Crepitate (v.) To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosions or sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap..
Decrepitation :: Decrepitation (n.) The act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting..
Deflagrable :: Deflagrable (a.) Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt..
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